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The Minnesota Hard Bop Collective exists to preserve the jazz era of hard bop, from the 1950s onward. It explores not only the music of the artists...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 08:00
The Minnesota Hard Bop Collective exists to preserve the jazz era of hard bop, from the 1950s onward. It explores not only the music of the artists...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Trombonist and composer Naomi Moon Siegel made the move from Seattle, Wa. to Missoula and has been carving out her own piece of Montana’s musical s...
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: :45
From the Musician’s Spotlight archives, circa March, 1998, this week’s program revisits host John Floridis’ conversation with singer songwriter Lyl...
Bought by Prairie Public, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 12, 2017
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 3
Friday night June 30, the Aster presents sets by two up and coming Twin Cities songwriters and bandleaders, Joe Kopel and Warren Thomas Fenzi. Phil...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 05:00
The story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organiz...
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Hillary Clinton has spent the last 16-years in government service, and 8-years occupying the White House. All of that experience did her little goo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Twin Cities guitarist David Singley has a new CD, his first in 20 years. The CD is more than a collection of tracks, but a project that caused Davi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 06:51
David Singley teaches guitar at McNally Smith College locally, he plays in bands, he composes, but he seldom records under his own name, at least n...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Aaron Kerr. He’s a man of multiple musical personalities. Aaron is first and foremost a composer. Owing to his formal musical training, he plays cl...
- Added: Apr 16, 2017
- Length: 05:45
She calls herself the Duchess of the Blues, and she’s been at it a long time. Dee Miller took time to talk to Phil Nusbaum about her inspirations, ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 05:00
A sampling of ideas and best practices for raising girls into adulthood. Three women who all have daughters and are also scholars and writers in t...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
While pop music styles come and go, the pop of the big band era has a timeless quality. Andrew Walesch is a young man carrying on where singers lik...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 09:53
When you listen to Jon Pemberton, the feeling that he has much to offer grows and grows. He is best known as a piano player, and you’ll see him as ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 08:20
Sonny Knight. He’s Mississippi born, but has lived in Minnesota since childhood. He talked with Phil Nusbaum about music in general, and about his ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Rick Carlson. All by himself he puts on quite a show playing American songbook classics. But if you ask him, his peak moments might just be in his ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 09:29
When you think of any kind of Celtic traditional music, you do not think of horn arrangements. But that’s just what Laura MacKenzie has added to tr...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 04:59
Poet Adam Zagajewski (zah-gah-yev-ski), the 2016 recipient of the Griffin Lifetime Achievement Prize for Excellence in Poetry, was born in Lwow, Po...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson talks about her novel Another Brooklyn (longlisted for National Book Award.) It’s in the form of a coming-o...
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 59:00
From humble beginnings in Moscow, Idaho highly acclaimed singer-songwriter Josh Ritter recorded and released his self-titled debut in 1999 after gr...
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: :29
From humble beginnings in Moscow, Idaho highly acclaimed singer-songwriter Josh Ritter recorded and released his self-titled debut in 1999 after gr...
Bought by KISU, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 3
To many, the Laughing Waters Bluegrass Festival at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis serves as the exclamation point at the end of a Twin Cities summe...
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Old Traditional folk songs. Without any promotion from the commercial world, the songs last for centuries. Sherry Minnick of St Paul sings old song...
- Added: Jul 10, 2016
- Length: 10:46
The Bend in the Big River Big Band is named for 2 Mississippi River bends. One is in Saint Peter, where the group was formed. And the other bend is...
- Added: Jun 24, 2016
- Length: 08:44
Darrell Scott is one of the most respected musicians in the broadly defined "Americana" genre. His most recent recording project comprised of ten s...
- Added: Jun 23, 2016
- Length: :30
